Identify the type of data (qualitative/quantitative) and the level of measuremen

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Identify the type of data (qualitative/quantitative) and the level of measurement for the following variable. Explain your choice. Happiness after graduation (on a scale of 1 to 10) Are the data qualitative or quantitative? Qualitative, because numerical values, found by ether measuring or counting, are used to describe the data. B. Quantitative, because numerical values, found by either measuring or counting, are used to describe the data. C. Quantitative, because descriptive terms are used to measure or classify the data. D. Qualitative, because descriptive terms are used to measure or classify the data. What is the data set's level of measurement? A. Interval, because the differences in the data can be meaningfully measured, but the data do not have a true zero point. B. Ratio, because the differences in the data can be meaningfully measured, and the data have a true zero point. C. Nominal, because the data are categories or labels that cannot be ranked. D. Ordinal, because the data are categories or labels that can be ranked.

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1) C) Quantitative : Beause descriptive terms are used to measure or classify the data.

  Quantitative research gathers data in numerical form which can be put into categories, or in rank order, or measured in units of measurement.

Quantitative data are measures of values or counts and are expressed as numbers.

As quantitative data are always numeric they can be ordered, added together, and the frequency of an observation can be counted. Therefore, all descriptive statistics can be calculated using quantitative data

2) D) Ordinal , because the data arecategories or labels that can be ranked

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